"Nobel disease" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, Jeff Wilser, The Good News About What's Bad For You..., page 53",
          "text": "According to many doctors, there was only one problem with [Linus] Pauling’s theories: they were all wrong. Pauling was afflicted with “Nobel disease,” a condition where a master in one field thinks he’s an authority in others, according to Dr. Steven Salzberg, professor of medicine and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, and a frequent debunker of pseudoscience. “He wasn’t an expert in nutrition. He was just completely wrong about this. All the evidence says he’s wrong.”",
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          "ref": "2018, Edzard Ernst, Kevin Smith, More Harm Than Good?: The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, page 163",
          "text": "Thereafter, he [Luc Montaginer] appears to have contracted the 'Nobel disease', in which success apparently goes to the head of the erstwhile respected scientist, resulting in an embarrassing public embrace of crankery.",
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          "ref": "2019, David Robson, The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Earned dogmatism might also further explain the bizarre claims of the scientists with \"Nobel Disease\" such as Kary Mullis.",
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